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Jan 25

Autotest and add_exception method

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Stuff floating on intrawebs for adding more files to be ignored using “add_exception” may not work because by the time “run” hook gets a chance to run, files to be ignored regexp is already compiled. The alternative is to use “initialize” hook like this:

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Autotest.add_hook :initialize do |at|
  at.add_exception(/^(coverage|\.git)/)
end

This is with 3.11.0 of ZenTest and YMMV.

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  1. Thanks for posting this! I just started using AutoTest and this saved me some time.

    Linux users might need to put:
    > at.add_exception(/^\.\/(coverage|\.git)/)

    since AutoTest is using Find and gets files/dirs as:
    > ./coverage
    > ./coverage/some_file
    > ./.git
    > ./.git/somefile

    I decided to be more strict and only include files from certain directories and exclude everything else. I used:
    > at.find_directories = ['./test']

    Diego A.

    12 Feb 09 at 8:53 pm

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